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Public. but in private, he did tell the nra that he was going for that. >> eric: can i just point out? we have an assault weapons ban. i know the issue is do you also extend it to semiautomatic weapons? fully automatic weapons, they're banned. you can't own them for a long time the question is do you extend that to the semiautomatic, which means if you pull the trigger once -- >> steve: one bullet per boom, boom, boom. >> eric: fully automatic is hold the trigger down, it will keep firing. there is clearly a distinction. interesting that the vice president met with the nra yesterday. then he's...

Some of what we've learned or understand there was a 100 round magazine, separate magazine for the ak assault rifle. it's a semi automatic, which means if you hold the trigger down, it will shoot one bullet at a time and reload itself. fully automatic, it would continue to load and shoot. the strange part or quirky part he bought 100 rounds expecting to use 100 rounds and it jammed. so, in a quirky sense what could have been more destructive actually may have saved a few lives. >> alisyn: well, the aurora police chief had a press conference in which he talked about all of this separation. >> w...

with the squirrel. look now at a cell phone video that was taken outside of the theater. 12 people were murdered, 10 dies outside that thter, two others at the hospital. 38 hours were wounded, one of whom, a 3-month-old baby. local reports say at least nine of the victims are now in critical condition. here's how one witness describeded the scene. >> came in and he started lighting a gas can and he threw it into the crowd. at that point he shot his first fire into the celling to scare everybody and everybody started scattering and mass kchaos started to happen. at that point he start...

Still slowing being distributed. >> your governor and your mayor have done really a fantastic job. >> he. >> yes, they did. >> thank you very much. good luck with everything. the president is going to head to las vegas tomorrow to visit with victims and first responders. today though we continue to ask where the of the zhaoer, stephen paddock decided to do the unthinkable. pete williams joins me now. pete, i want to talk about the sheer amount of gunfire that paddock was able to lay down. several rounds a second. that is not something we are accustomed to people, civilians, being able to do....